Jon Cruddas is wrong: the evidence actually proves Labour need a clearer anti-austerity agenda
Jon Cruddas has today argued, as part of his independent inquiry into Labour’s election loss, that ‘the Tories didn’t…
Ben Folley
Labour could lose out by not making it’s stance on Trident clear
Cutting Trident will be the price of support in a hung parliament. That’s the news reported from a…
Labour should commit to nuclear disarmament
Labour is committed to achieving global nuclear disarmament. Or at least I hope it is. The party pointed…
We need an activist government that intervenes in the public interest
Huge hikes in energy charges, falling real wages, job losses, zero-hours contracts, lower benefits, people with disabilities denied…
The People’s Assembly was not the anti-Labour event some have claimed
Standing out at the People’s Assembly was the energy of new community campaigners opposing the impact of austerity…
We need a Labour Assembly Against Austerity
Talk of ‘tough decisions’ and ‘iron discipline’ on spending demonstrate the dominance of Tory thinking over economic policy…
Trident isn’t a simplistic ‘for or against’ debate
Nuclear weapons are a divisive issue. In fact, in the current debate over whether or not the UK…
We know austerity is failing. What we should be debating is the size of stimulus we need
As austerity maintains a grip over Europe, the left is desperately casting about for policies that will both…
The stark choice facing the Greek people
It is difficult to imagine the impact of austerity in Greecefrom here in the UK. Aside from the…
Occupy has succeeded in reframing the debate where Labour has failed
Only hours after watching Ed Miliband on Channel 4 News say the Occupy camp at St Pauls ‘reflected…
